Pentagon officials gearing up for JWCC Next enterprise cloud program solicitation

Pentagon officials gearing up for JWCC Next enterprise cloud program solicitation

The Pentagon plans to issue a solicitation for the next iteration of its high-dollar enterprise cloud initiative in the first quarter of calendar year 2026, according to a senior official at the Defense Information Systems Agency.

In December 2022, Google, Oracle, Amazon Web Services and Microsoft were awarded contract spots on the $9 billion Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability (JWCC) program and have been competing for task orders. To date, more than $3 billion in task orders have been awarded, according to John Hale, chief of product management and development at DISA.

However, officials are looking to shake things up with a follow-on effort, dubbed JWCC Next, with the request for proposals set to come early in 2026, which corresponds with the second quarter of fiscal 2026.

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